What happened in 2002?
No new books were published in 2002 (Rowling was still writing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix); however Warner Brothers' release of the "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" movie was big news.

Rating	2002	Title & highlights*	Links	Type
*	Mar 8	Rowling stops Potter radio readings BBC News	text	report
**	Apr 15	Give loans to the poor, says Rowling The Telegraph (London)	text	report
**	May 21	UK Author's owl speeds transplant girl's recovery The Scotsman	text	report
**	May 26	Sarah Brown and JK Rowling: why we want you to help single parents: Chancellor's wife and Harry Potter writer reveal reasons they back charity Sunday Herald	text	Rowling statement
***	June	JK Rowling on her Days of Poverty The Mirror (UK)	text	Rowling statement
***	June 9	A kind of magic The Daily Telegraph (London)	text	Rowling statement
*** New!	June	Foreword to Magic: New Stories Bloomsbury Press	text	Rowling statement
***	Sep 19	Newsround talks exclusively to J.K. Rowling CBBC Newsround	text	interview
****	Oct 3	The Magic Behind Harry Potter Sixty Minutes (CBS News) When JKR choses names she knows the sound she is after. Mosag (Aragog's wife) is a Gaelic epithet meaning "dirty female or filthy." JKR's planning charts for each book list the month, the chapter title and what has to happen	text (alternate, re-edited version with video below)	interview
****	Oct 3	The Magic Behind Harry Potter Sixty Minutes (CBS News) Mosag (Aragog's wife) is a Gaelic epithet meaning "dirty female or filthy." Jo shows books she used for research: Fortune Telling By Cards, and Culpeper's Complete Herbal.	text video (heavily re-edited version of interview listed above)	interview
**	Oct 21	There will NOT be an eighth Potter Book CBBC Newsround Online	text	report
Movie version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets released November 15, 2002
****	Nov	Harry Potter - Harry and me The Scotsman The name ‘Gilderoy' came from Brewers' Dictionary of Phase and Fable – he was a handsome Scottish highwayman. Lockhart came from a First World War memorial.	text	interview
**	Nov	Trick & Treat: J.K. Rowling turns Stirling Castle into Hogwarts for Halloween fundraiser The Sunday Mail (UK)	text	report
*****	Nov 13	Harry Potter and Me A&E Biography (U.S.)	text	interview
****	Nov 13	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Audio Interview: J.K. Rowling IGN.com (Filmforce) JKR: "Key things happen in book two [...] no one knows how important those things are... yet. There's a lot in there... and I know how difficult it was to get it all in there without drawing too much attention to the clues." "All the important stuff [from book 2] got into the film."	text audio: mp3 audio: quicktime	interview
***	Dec	Rowling finds a meaning in fame Bookshelf	text	interview
***	Dec 22	Famous author corresponds with ailing child Albany Times Union	text	report
Rating	2002	Title & highlights*	Links	Type

*Article highlights created by Deborah Skinner (aka 'Madam Scoop') and Lisa Bunker

Original page date 21 September 2006; last updated 22 April, 2007

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